Guide for window-shades.



No. 808,242. PATENTED DEG. ,26; -1905.-.

E. 0. JORDAN. GUIDE FOR WINDOW SHADES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6. 1905.

ITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1905.

Application filed July 6, 1905. Serial No. 268,544.

To all whont it vnay concern:

Be it known that I, ELMORE 0. JORDAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Guides forWindow- Shades, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide simple and reliable means toguide the window-shade in its movements up and down along the frame andto keep it in line with the window-frame and to provide means to tightenthe guide-wires used therefor and to prevent the jar occasioned by thesudden stopping of the shade when it is permitted to automatically winditself up. I accomplish these objects by the means described herein andshown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a windowframe and a sash therein, a window-shade thereon with mywindow-shade guides in place thereon. Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentarydetail of the different parts.

In the drawings, A is the window-frame, and B is the sash therein.

O is a window-shade adapted to be rolled up on the roller D. This shadehas the usual bottom strip E, sewed to the bottom of the shade in theusual manner. Projecting from the strip E at both ends thereof is ascreweye F, through which the guide-wires G are adapted to pass. Theseguide-wires are secured at the top to the brackets II and at the bottomto the lower cross-piece A of the frame by the adjusting screws I. Thesescrews are provided with an opening therethrough for the passagethereinto of the guideatdres. In mounting these guide-wires they arefirst secured at their upper ends to the bracket II and are passedthence downwardly through the spiral spring J, which is also secured tothe bracket H, and thence down through the eyelets in the screw-eye F,and thence into the opening in the screw I, where the wires are secured.In lieu of the screw-eyes in the ends of the bottom E, I may let the endof the piece project beyond the shade and place therethrough a verticalopening for the reception and operation of the guidewires. When bothwires are in place, as herein described, the guide-wires are made tautby turning the adjusting-screw I. This will wind the wires around thescrews. It will be seen that these guide-wires will always keep thebottom piece E on the Windowshade straight and prevent the shade frombeing blown out of line by the wind, as well as prevent it from gettingout of line when the hand-cord K is released and the Windowshade isquickly rolled up on the roller. In the conventional manner of mountingwindow-shades the windowshade will when pulled slightly downwardly bythe hand-cord K and let go quickly roll up the shade with greatrapidity, bringing the bottom piece E in contact with the roller,subjecting the shade to liability to be torn immediately above thebottom piece, owing to the sudden manner in which the movement of theshade is stopped. To prevent this injury to the shade, I have providedthe coiled spring J, depending downwardly from the brackets II, whichwill catch the screw-eyes F and form a yielding cushion to stop themovement of the window-shade when the bottom piece gets to the top afterthe hand-cord has been released.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. Means to guide a window-shade comprising a window-shade havingapertures in both ends of the bottom piece thereof, the said openings inthe bottom piece disposed beyond the window-shade; guide-wires in saidopenings secured to a bracket at the top of the window-frame andextending downwardly therefrom through the opening in the ends of thebottom pieces and secured to a screw in the bottom of the window-frame,the said screw in the bottom of the windowframe having an openingtherethrough for the reception and engagement of the guidewires wherebythe guide-wires will be tightened upon turning the screws a spiralspring surrounding each guide-wire and disposed at the top of theguide-wire.

2. The herein-described means to guide a window-shade comprising awindow-shade O having a bottom piece E at the bottom thereof; ascrew-eye F in both ends of said bottom piece; guide-wires G disposed oneither side of the window-frame and extending from the top to the bottomthereof, the top being secured to the bracket H and extending down-Wardly therefrom through the screw-eyes F In Witness that I claim theforegoing I have passing thence into and through an opening hereuntosubscribed my name this 29th day in the screws 1, the screws I in thebottom of the frame having an opening therethrough for thereception ofthe lower end of the guide- Wire and the spiral springs J surroundingthe guidewires and disposed at the top thereof.

of June, 1905.

ELMORE C. JORDAN.

Witnesses:

HENRY T. HAZARD, MYRTLE A. JoNEs.

